Europe has coped well to date with the collapse in Russian gas supply, but the impact and capacity to respond is unevenly distributed across the region. Fathom’s Financial Vulnerability Indicator (FVI) identifies rising risk of a sovereign crisis in Europe next year, particularly in Eastern European countries such as Romania, Poland and Hungary. Limited fiscal space and dependency on Russian energy are common features of European countries with high sovereign risk in the FVI…
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